Sports Shorts: PHS basketball holding fund-raiser

Saturday

Nov 29, 2008 at 2:00 AM

The Portsmouth High School girls basketball team is holding a fund-raiser on Dec. 13 from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Applebee's on Woodbury Ave. in Portsmouth. The team will be serving a pancake breakfast. Door prizes will be given out.

The Portsmouth High School girls basketball team is holding a fund-raiser on Dec. 13 from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Applebee's on Woodbury Ave. in Portsmouth. The team will be serving a pancake breakfast. Door prizes will be given out.

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Red Sox have hired former major leaguer and Tampa Bay Rays coach Tim Bogar as their new first-base coach.

The 44-year-old replaces Luis Alicea, the only member of last year's staff who was not offered a contract for the 2009 season. Red Sox general manager Theo Epstein announced Bogar's hiring Friday. Last year, Bogar was an infield and baserunning coach for the 2008 American League champion Rays.

Before joining the Rays, he spent four seasons as a manager in the Cleveland Indians and Houston Astros minor-league systems. Bogar played for the New York Mets, Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1993-2001.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee and Lane Kiffin have reached a tentative agreement with the former Oakland Raiders coach to lead the Volunteers, a person familiar with the negotiations told the Associated Press on Friday.

A formal announcement was expected early next week, said the person, who requested anonymity because the deal had not been finalized.

Kiffin, 33, replaces Phillip Fulmer, who was forced out after 17 seasons as Vols coach. Fulmer won a national championship in 1998 but had two losing seasons in the last five years, including a 4-7 mark this year.

Tennessee athletic department spokeswoman Tiffany Carpenter declined to comment on Kiffin because Fulmer had not finished his season. Athletic director Mike Hamilton did not return a phone message seeking comment.

GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — The New York Knicks needed Stephon Marbury to play, then suspended him a game and docked him nearly $400,000 in salary Friday after claiming he refused.

The disgruntled guard insists he never told coach Mike D'Antoni "no" and plans to appeal.

Just another chapter in Marbury's turbulent tenure with his hometown team.

D'Antoni wouldn't go into specifics of their conversation that took place before Wednesday's loss in Detroit, though he made it clear he asked the point guard to play because the Knicks were short-handed.

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers have traded pitcher Wes Littleton to the Boston Red Sox for a player or players to be named and cash.

The Rangers, who announced the trade Friday, designated the right-hander for assignment on Nov. 20. He pitched out of the bullpen in 12 games last season after making a combined 68 appearances the two previous seasons. He was 0-0 with a 6.00 ERA in 2008. He spent most of the season with Triple-A Oklahoma, where he was 7-1 with six saves and a 4.01 ERA.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — New York Giants wide receiver Plaxico Burress will miss Sunday's game against Washington with a sore right hamstring.

Burress pulled the hamstring in the Giants' win over Baltimore on Nov. 16. He then aggravated the injury in the opening series last Sunday against Arizona, and then sat out the rest of that game.

Giants coach Tom Coughlin said Friday that Burress "is progressing, no doubt. He is getting better."

Domenik Hixon, who is dealing with an ankle injury, will start in Burress' place.

The last time Burress missed a game due to injury was Nov. 5, 2006, when he sat out with a back injury. He played in every game for the Super Bowl champion Giants last season despite a persistent ankle injury.

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